Iain Black

Iain Black
Iain Black
Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly; for Port Moody-Westwood
	In office; May 17, 2005 – October 3, 2011
Preceded by	Christy Clark
Succeeded by	Joe Trasolini
Minister of Labour and Citizens Services of British Columbia
	In office; June 23, 2008 – June 10, 2009
Premier	Gordon Campbell
Preceded by	Olga Ilich
Succeeded by	Murray Coell
Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development of British Columbia
	In office; June 10, 2009 – October 25, 2010
Premier	Gordon Campbell
Preceded by	Ida Chong
Minister of Labour of British Columbia
	In office; October 25, 2010 – March 23, 2011
Premier	Gordon Campbell
Preceded by	Murray Coell
Succeeded by	Stephanie Cadieux
Personal details
Born	1967 (age 52–53); Winnipeg, Manitoba
Political party	Liberal

Iain James Stewart Black (born 1967 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former politician in British Columbia, Canada. He was first elected to represent the riding of Port Moody-Westwood in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the BC general election held on May 17, 2005, as a member of the BC Liberal Party.[1] He was re-elected in the 2009 BC general election in the Port Moody-Coquitlam riding.

Black was the Minister of Labour between October 25, 2010 and March 23, 2011. He was previously appointed Minister of Labour and Citizens' Services on June 23, 2008 and Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development on June 10, 2009.

Black resigned as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, effective October 3, 2011, to accept a job as the president and CEO of the Vancouver Board of Trade.[2]

Black joined Maximizer Software Inc as President and CEO in 2019.

Election results (partial)

2009 British Columbia general election: Port Moody-Coquitlam
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Iain Black	9,979	52.15	$92,290
	New Democratic	Shannon Watkins	7,614	39.80	$76,297
	Green	Rebecca Helps	1,261	6.59	$1,048
	Your Political Party	James Filippelli	198	1.03	$775
	Refederation	Donna Vandekerkhove	82	0.43	$260
Total Valid Votes			19,134	100
Total Rejected Ballots			102	0.53
Turnout			19,236	57.44

gollark: Now, part of that is probably that you can't really trust whoever is asking to use those resources properly, and that's fair. But there are now things for comparing the effectiveness of different charities and whatnot.

gollark: But if you ask "hey, random person, would you be willing to give up some amount of money/resources/etc to stop people dying of malaria", people will just mostly say no.

gollark: If you *ask* someone "hey, random person, would you like people in Africa to not die of malaria", they will obviously say yes. Abstractly speaking, people don't want people elsewhere to die of malaria.

gollark: Capitalism is why we have a massively effective (okay, mostly, some things are bad and need fixing, like intellectual property) economic engine here which can produce tons of stuff people want. But people *do not care* about diverting that to help faraway people they can't see.

gollark: Helping people elsewhere does mean somewhat fewer resources available here, and broadly speaking people do not actually want to make that tradeoff.

References

British Columbia Votes 2009: Coquitlam-Burke Mountain. cbc.ca.
Bailey, Ian (August 24, 2011). "As another Liberal MLA quits, Clark says it's business as usual". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 1, 2018.

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[1] British Columbia Votes 2009: Coquitlam-Burke Mountain. cbc.ca.

[2] Bailey, Ian (August 24, 2011). "As another Liberal MLA quits, Clark says it's business as usual". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 1, 2018.